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echo: virus_info
to: CHRIS THURTELL
from: DAVID DESROSIERS
date: 1997-01-03 23:55:00
subject: Re: Regionalized Viruses

 -=> Quoting CHRIS THURTELL to THE VISIONARY <=-
 -=> Quoting The Visionary to Kurt Wismer <=-
 TV> It was a glaring security flaw they overlooked that allowed the
 TV> worm to exploit their systems. The SysAdmin should have been jailed,
 TV> and they should have hired the worm author in his place.
 CT> Hang on a sec. It wasn't just that *system*. It was a problem with
 CT> the mail daemon on a ver of unix ( can't remember which one )
        It's a 'feature' in sendmail. Since sendmail is such a powerful
program, and there's been MANY books written about it, there's a lot of ways
to use it to compromise other systems.
-The Visionary
visionary@brazerko.com
... Netmail doesn't exist; the Sysop types all this in!
--- WtrGate+ 0.93.PRE1 beta sn 116
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